It should be noted that the Israeli cabinet recently approved the creation of a National Cyber Directorate to bolster the digital perimeter protecting the borders of the Jewish state.

The nascent Directorate will likely be led (at least initially) by elements within the IDF's secretive Unit 8200 - which may have coded the Stuxnet computer worm responsible for infecting Iranian nuclear facilities.

"Terrorist groups understand there is a huge potential for causing harm to countries or entities, damage that could change the [strategic] balance," an IDF officer explained.

"Our job is to prevent this from happening. In contrast to other battle fronts, time and space have no meaning in the cyber realm."